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Tom Huddlestone
Out of interest, what do you mean by the bolded bit?
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Dominic Solanke
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Out of interest, what do you mean by the bolded bit?
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
Muscle injuries
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
I didn't know he had 1 cap from years ago!
Yiddo
Jack Jull
His last and only appearance was 7 years a go apparently.
Purely on the basis that he had just signed for Liverpool. This time he has earned it though.
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
Yeah I just checked, It was during his time at Liverpool, and he hardly played there and only scored 1 goal for them that season!
afsoc4life
Vedran Corluka
Were the FA worried he would decide to play for Nigeria? They shouldn't have. Congrats to Dominic. Hope he builds a solid international career.
Think that might be more with toney going to Saudi and a new England manager.
Not saying he doesn't deserve the call up.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
He was great
Did the lime leading part and pressed from the front
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
It was truly a lovely assist on Sunday, almost youknowwho-esq...along with Johnson and Deki, i don't think he deserved to be on the losing side. Let's hope he isn't cursed by the call-up and comes back still healthy
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Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
It did have those vibes
And it’s not what I thought he could do either
Bishop
John Lacy
I'm going to take a controversial angle and many of the overly positive thinkers won't agree with me but I think we need to talk about Solanke and his impact on the team. I personally think he is playing reasonably well and has a few goals which is obviously really positive but I can't lie I'm unconvinced in the way we use him and the way he integrates into the system.
Across our 5 PL games so far this season he has 2 goals (great), but how have those goals come about? They've been rebounds, thats a great thing to have of course, a penalty box sniffer is not to be disregarded but where are the goals that actually finish with him having a direct shot on target? I'm struggling to remember any shots he has actually had on goal and it feels for me that he is very much feeding on scraps (hence the rebound goals).
To be clear this isn't a critique of the player himself, I think he's playing well. Pressing like a monster, demonstrating good hold up play and generally involved, it feels like his game is dangerous and he's a threat but where are the chances that we are queuing up for him?
So much was said in the summer about how well he fits the system (and he largely does) but it's a system that seems rather blunt and one that isn't really creating many opportunities for him to actually score. Without those rebounds we would all be really concerned with the lack of chances or opportunities we've made for him. The quality of service hasn't really been there imo.
Across our 5 PL games so far this season he has 2 goals (great), but how have those goals come about? They've been rebounds, thats a great thing to have of course, a penalty box sniffer is not to be disregarded but where are the goals that actually finish with him having a direct shot on target? I'm struggling to remember any shots he has actually had on goal and it feels for me that he is very much feeding on scraps (hence the rebound goals).
To be clear this isn't a critique of the player himself, I think he's playing well. Pressing like a monster, demonstrating good hold up play and generally involved, it feels like his game is dangerous and he's a threat but where are the chances that we are queuing up for him?
So much was said in the summer about how well he fits the system (and he largely does) but it's a system that seems rather blunt and one that isn't really creating many opportunities for him to actually score. Without those rebounds we would all be really concerned with the lack of chances or opportunities we've made for him. The quality of service hasn't really been there imo.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I think he has been great and is showing his to hold a ball up (something we haven’t seen since Berba) and how to play as a CF in the box
I’ve also been really impressed with his passing
Having him and Johnson play the right way for Ange ball ha ankle exasperated the issue on the left. We’re currently playing possibly out 4th choice there.
We haven’t seen a game where son has beaten a man and crossed a ball
Odebrrt has barely played a minute on the left
Richy hasn’t played any time
And Werner has been Werner
Then we have Moore who we have seen play great in one tough away European game
It’s not an area thag is functioning currently
With the rest of the play what Solanke is doing is helping us get into the right part of the pitch to be effective, something we massively lacked last year when Richy wasn’t playing CF (and Solanke is better than him)
the data shows we’re occupying the most dangerous part of the pitch more and more which is great. We just need the balance to work itself out.
Solanke highlight reel at Bournemouth was gaols very similar to what your seeing here and they are goals we wouldn’t have got last year with son playing outside of the area all the time and not engaging the centre backs